Oracle Database Reviews

The tool's most valuable feature is data encryption. The security features are good. They include field-level security, role-level security, and easy access controls.

The tool is costly, and migration is hard. We need tools like Database Migration Assistant for Oracle to migrate data between databases. Sometimes, older versions of Oracle are no longer supported, making the transition even more difficult.

I have been using the product for ten years. 

I rate Oracle Database's stability an eight out of ten. 

The tool's scalability is fine. However, you need to pay for additional nodes. 
Scalability is an issue because expanding the system requires additional hardware and licenses for each node. There's no option for mirroring the initial license across different nodes, so each new node requires its license. My company has 300,000 users. We're planning to increase usage gradually, depending on customer demand and database growth, aiming for about a 10 to 20 percent increase annually.

I used Microsoft SQL Server before Oracle Database. 

Oracle Database's deployment is fine. The deployment process for the Oracle database involves considering hardware compatibility. Licensing costs may vary based on the server model used.

The licensing cost is not based on a yearly subscription but rather on the number of devices used annually.

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. Consider starting with an open-source database instead of Oracle Database, as the enterprise versions and licensing costs can be quite significant.

The tool is efficient and fast compared to other alternatives. The tool's processing speed is fast, and we've experienced minimal hang-ups. This enables us to address queries within a shorter time frame. I wouldn't say it's just one particular feature, but overall, the efficiency and speed of Oracle Database have had a significant impact. Our support systems are more efficient, allowing us to accomplish tasks quickly. 

The tool's price gap is a major concern. It makes it hard for others to afford it and use it effectively. More people could benefit from its features if the pricing could be made more reasonable. Many companies choose cheaper options because of this affordability issue.

I have been using the product for seven to eight years. 

I rate the solution's stability an eight out of ten. 

We face scalability issues at times due to the vendors. I rate it a seven out of ten. My company has 150 users. I don't use it often, maybe once a week. However, some people use it for about eight hours daily.

I used MySQL before Oracle Database. 

I rate the tool's deployment an eight out of ten. We have deployed it on the cloud but have our backups on-prem. The setup and maintenance took around six months initially, with ongoing maintenance afterward. Since it was some time ago, I can't recall the exact details, but from initiation to finishing, it was approximately six months due to the various stages of software implementation.

The vendors helped with the tool's implementation. 

I rate Oracle Database's pricing a four out of ten. 

We don't have many security challenges, but we continue to review them because it depends on how they are set up. In terms of the database itself, it performs perfectly. However, we encountered some challenges with the software we used in conjunction with the database. These challenges are separate from the performance of the database itself.

Due to affordability concerns, I can't recommend it to everyone. I have to consider their budgets. Many opt for other options because Oracle's license costs are significantly higher than alternatives like MySQL. So, I would recommend it for enterprise-level use. 

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. 

I use the solution in my company for developing applications, of course, with the ERP in place, along with the different modules that are related to the financial system, HR's internal functionalities, project management, and invoicing. My company uses it more for the in-house development of IT applications.

The most valuable feature of the solution is database management, which is good, along with the backup. The server-based programming, PL/SQL, is good.

The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required. In general, the product should be priced more economically for users.

I have been using Oracle Database for thirty years.

It is a very stable solution.

It is a scalable solution. You can always tune the parameters and decide on how much to scale based on the memory available. You can configure your SGA along with memory, and once you outgrow it, you can always reconfigure and re-initiate it, making it a scalable tool.

Over a long period of time, my company has been dealing with a user base of various sizes. There are times when the user base can go up to 200 people.

The product is extensively used, and my company plans to increase its use in the future.

I have used the product's online community to get answers to the questions I post related to the tool.

I have experience with Ingres. My company started to use Oracle Database because of its flexibility and the availability of more tools. The overall comprehensiveness provided by the tool was good.

The product's initial setup phase was very easy. There are no real challenges in the setup phase, as it is a sophisticated product.

For the product's deployment phase, if you have your operating system ready, you can decide whether you want to put Oracle Database in Microsoft or Linux, after which you need to make the prerequisites available for JRE or Microsoft's .NET platform. Once the prerequisites are in place, you can download a suitable VM, and the deployments can be done.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

There is no need for a team to take care of the deployment and maintenance of the product since the tool is well-documented and a lot of information is available in it. In the past, the deployment and maintenance of the product used to be a bit tough. Over a period of time, the deployment and maintenance of the product have become quicker and easier.

The product is costly. You need to pay for all the product components that you use. You can go for an annual or multi-year subscription model, depending on your requirements.

Currently, my company uses the tool for record-keeping purposes, specifically for some information. My company uses Power BI for real-time data analytics.

The critical applications our company runs on Oracle Database are attached to areas involving invoicing and financial systems.

The security features of Oracle Database are good, reliable, and stable.

The cloud-based solution available is good for those who plan to start using the tool. Instead of choosing the on-premises version, people can go with the tool's cloud-based version. Potential uses of the product should attempt to start small, and then when the need arises, they can grow the tool's usage capacity. The tool offers fallback, resilience, and redundancy features, which you can always add whenever required.

Though I have never tried to use the migration capabilities of the product, I know that there is a process for using it, which is not very difficult but sometimes time-consuming.

I rate the product an eight out of ten.

I use Oracle Database in my company for database management.

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very scalable and secure while offering very high performance. I have to ensure our company's system runs twenty-four hours, seven days a week for three-sixty-five days a year. The tool provides me with peace of mind since I know that nothing can go wrong in terms of fraudulent attempts where the product's security can be compromised. The aforementioned parameters are what I look at when it comes to the product.

There are no significant areas related to drawbacks in the product that I want to point out. When it comes to the product, it is the way you deploy or the cluster that makes some difference. How you implement or deploy the product can be an area of concern that can be made a bit easier. There is a close connection between the skill set of your company's team that handles the deployment and implementation phases and the user-friendliness that the system provides. There is a need to ensure that there is a trade-off between the skill set of the product's users and the ease of use the product offers. The aforementioned reasons make it very difficult to compartmentalize the issues in the product. It is important to ensure how well-versed your company's team is with the deployment of the product and with some of the parameters that need to be tuned up so that the product can offer high performance on your system. How the product can be made efficient in terms of performance is a function of your company's team's expertise rather than the product's capability.

I have been using Oracle Database for fifteen to twenty years.

The tool gets upgraded mostly by the company, but many times, immediate upgrades are not possible because of so many reasons. There are so many strategic decisions that may be made by the company over why we may not want to enroll in a new version, which might be available in the market because of the transition phase, testing, and all the efforts needed to take care of the process. The upgrade is just not a run in an environment simply because you have to test it out and do a battle test before even announcing that it is ready to enter the production phase. It is not always possible to put in so much effort at the time when an upgrade is announced, so it has to be prioritized later on. There are so many reasons why we will not be going in for the latest version after just some limited testing.

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I have experience with IBM Db2.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

I recommend the product to others who plan to use it.

In general, the product is strong enough and offers high performance. I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.

We use it for different applications in my company.

Stability and availability are the features I like the most in the solution. Transparent data encryption (TDE) is a feature I like the most in the product.

The product's price can be lower since it is a bit of an expensive solution.

Some engineers have the right skill set to resolve issues, but the support could be better.

I have been using Oracle Database for over ten years. I am an end user of the solution.

It is a stable solution.

The patching is an area that takes a long time, so we are trying to find another solution to minimize the downtime and do the patching.

Oracle Database is easier to scale up. The number of users using the solution in our organization depends on different applications normally, and it may be over a million being used by users for a customer.

The support from Oracle is okay. I rate the technical support a seven out of ten.

Neutral

The product's installation is difficult compared with other solutions since it can't support other platforms making the installation complicated.

The PoC phase to deploy the tool on-premises will take at least one week.

The solution is deployed on an AWS cloud.

Around two or three people were needed for installation.

My company has opted for perpetual licensing. We only need to make payments toward the licensing of the product.

It is not very easy to maintain Oracle Database. We need nearly twenty people in India to maintain the solution.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We use the Oracle Database for applications such as sensor data management, banking tools, e-commerce forms, and similar functionalities. It is a data warehouse.

We have used the database in different production and environments. It has good features for performance tuning. I am using multiple environments for the Oracle web. The main functions are high availability, scalability, load balancing, and data integration.

The price could be lower.

I have been using Oracle Database for 7 to 8 years.

The solution’s scalability is good.

The customer support is better.

Neutral

The initial setup is neither easy nor complex.

The product is expensive.

Most customers use the stable version of the Oracle database. They should update it. Oracle V19 is the stable version.

Overall, I rate the solution a 7 out of 10.

We use the solution as a database, basically. We do not use it for the data warehouse. It's just a few databases.

We're satisfied with the solution. The performance is great.

We find the solution to be stable.

The scalability is very good. You can expand it if you need to.

We don't have any concerns with the data activity and recovery capabilities.

The initial setup is easy.

The cost of Oracle is far too high. They should work to make it less expensive. We're going to stop using it for this reason. 

They could improve the scalability a bit. There are other options that are more scalable, for example. 

I've been using the solution for almost 10 years now. It's been a decade. I've used it for a while. 

The stability is very good and it has very good performance. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

We don't have an issue with the solution's scalability. It's expandable. 

What we see is Mongo and Cassandra, and many other databases that are extremely scalable and distributed. With Oracle, obviously, there are other types of databases that are performing better in this area. Obviously, they could improve scalability from a scalability perspective.

I've never contacted technical support. I cannot speak to how helpful or responsive they are. 

We are using DB2 on mainframes and we do have Microsoft SQL, and then we started using PostgreSQL as well.

We haven't had a problem with the initial setup. It's very simple and straightforward. 

I haven't installed it in recent times, however, from what I recall, the actual production upgrade took us probably less than four hours.

Currently, the database team is around 40 or more people from engineering and from operations. It's a full database engineering and operations team so it's covering other databases as well - such as DB2 and SQL and Cassandra and other databases. You can take three to six engineers and have them handle deployment and maintenance, although everyone works on other things.

We handled everything in-house. We did not need the assistance of integrators or consultants. 

It's CPU-based licensing. The cost is far too high. We're looking into other options to avoid having to pay so much. There are both licensing and support costs you need to consider. 

We have been looking at less expensive options such as Azure SQL and PostgreSQL.

We're a customer and an end-user.

We use both cloud-based and on-premises deployments. 

While I might have recommended Oracle in the past, due to the cost factor, it's hard to recommend it these days. 

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

I work for an insurance organization and we have been using Oracle Database for our application architecture. We store all the user-level information in the Oracle Database that our company deals in, such as policy information. Before I joined this organization, they were only using the Oracle Database but now we are migrating from Oracle to the SQL Server Database. For any new applications that are getting built or designed, we are trying to use SQL Server instead of Oracle.

I have been looking for a virtualization database engine from Oracle. They have third-party vendors that can do it but if Oracle comes with its own virtual engine, it would be helpful. Additionally, the solution could be more user-friendly and improve the Transparent Data Encryption. 

I have been using Oracle Database for approximately 10 years.

Oracle Database is stable.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 2,000 users using this solution.

I have been satisfied with the technical support from Oracle.

We use SQL Server.

The installation was not a good experience it took a lot of time.

We have a 10 person technical team which consists of administrators and managers that do the implementation and maintenance of the solution.

We have been paying for an annual enterprise license Oracle Database.

If I had the choice to pick between Orcale Database or SQL Server, I would choose SQL Server.

I rate Oracle Database a seven out of ten.